Henrik wants to make saying goodbye a little easier

The folk artist echoes the likes of The Lumineers and Noah Kahan with a wholesome, wanderlust-ridden anthem

Mar 06, 2024

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If you’re on FolkTok, maybe you’ve seen some photo posts where one slide says “You don’t have to go, but…” and the second reveals a map with the lyric: “But oh oh oh whoa, if you have to go.”

“Grace” by Henrik is a Noah Kahan-esque track celebrating getting out of your hometown. In a video promoting the song, released in August, the artist wrote “POV: you just found a song that makes saying goodbye a little easier.”

I discovered the South Jersey-based folk artist on my FYP a few months ago when he released a fun track called “Go Birds,” about a heartbreak at an Eagles tailgate. Little did I realize he had a whole discography of main-character folk pop anthems in store.

I personally love when artists pay homage to their home cities, be it Philly or elsewhere. Where we’re from undoubtedly influences our creative work. Artists owe a lot of their inspiration to where they’ve been, as trending artist Djo puts it in an a verse you may have heard: “You take the man out of the city, not the city out the man.”

While I love to shout out a Philly-based artist, Henrik deserves national recognition on the folk pop stage, a genre we definitely can’t get enough of right now.

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